had egg and bread and jam and all again.. but this time had cheese to go with
went to the hall in grps and we had to do this statue or wadsoeva with the 3 items that everyone was suppose to bring... my grp made a person sitting on a chair infront of a table with the items...this sessions wasnt exactly fun la..
anw after that we had team bonding activities...
1st stop.. back of the hall..
activity : TRUST FALL !!!!
omg.. nv done it b4... wouldn't have done it either... got fear of heights... den.. argh.. i dunno.. it's juz very scary to me... 3 or 4 ppl went up b4 i did... i was observing them.. and kinda got scared juz watching... den next was me!?!? i wanted to back out.. but i didnt noe how to go about it.. so i juz climbed up the 2 tables...standing at the end... i was really holding back tears of fear... so many "wad ifs" popped out in my head.. "wad if i din fall properly?" "wad if i'm too heavy and they break their arms?" "wad if i fall out of the catching area?" "wad if..." den i juz suddenly felt stupid standing up there... din wanna stand there long either.. so i juz dunno whether to close eyes or not and dropped!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ................................
omG~ that was a close shave?!?!? haha.. i actually fell quite okayily... haha... i felt very proud of myself.. my legs were shivering still after that.. and heart still beat damn fast... but.. i wanted to do it again!!! to overcome your fears.. u have to face it.. i figured if i were to keep doing it.. den i wouldnt be scared anymore! haha.. but no time la.. if not could have done a level higher!!!! but i think i'd probably juz die la.. oh well...
the rest of the stations were okay la.. trust fall was the only wan which left a big impact on me.. cuz i finally did a trust fall in my entire life!!! yay! =) had tea break again after all the stations..
was damn tired... could see alot of ppl was... quite a no. of ppl was slping during his long presentation... like quite bad.. think he could see.. haha.. but wad to do.. we were really tired!!!!!
ate with ying qi, ying ying, xiao an, woon, wei ting.... after that we were like fooling around.. drawing and writing on each other... den later went to toilet to wash hands.. den i juz merely SPRINKLED some water on woon.. den she and weiting SPASHED me!!!!! wth!!! tt's like so FAIR huh... i grabbed some tissue and ran after them.. since weiting was bai ka so i chased after her.. den i tried to stuff the tissue down her shirt.. but very hard.. den later woon showed up.. den i tried to do tt to her too.. but failed!!! den she took the tissue.. and den it became woon and weiting chasing after me!!! ah!!! fei li ah!!!!!
wah damn tired la! run here run there!!!! hahaz.. we tamed down after a while and sat and talked.. den weiting taught us a bimbo dance on "barbie girl" ...???!! eeeW... hahahaz.. as usual.. we manage to dirty the dance moves.. ahahz.. stupid woon pinned me on the floor for i dunno wad reason! stupid dirty girl.. groundworking me in the middle of nowhere???!?! well.. that's woon for u!
sports ppl were sent to the maths resource room where we were given the chance to speak up and voice our opinions... but it was not really very successful la.. so in the end they forced everyone to say sth.. about wad they found most useful about the camp... sucks.. yeah i dun deny that it was the most fruitful session of the whole camp.. cuz i liked kinda realise alot of things.. and the views of the other ppl... and for some.. how they actually din feel too happy about certain stuff which surprised me.. cuz they looked strong... well.. anw i kinda thing i talked crap.. so scared and like dunno wad to say.. say also like scared dun make sense.. den i dunno.. think i talked very long.. my brained cramped... ah! nvm.. forget it.. i guess they din realised la... anw it was a rather enriching session.. ahahz..
hmm.. about this camp.. i think alot of ppl would agree that it's sort of a waste of $ ? 100 bucks for lousy workshops and all.. and the sch subsidised more than 1/2?!?! k.. definitely there muz be some useful parts la.. but i was probably slping..?
wad i gainned from this camp... hmm.. a little knowledge, getting inspired by Dr tan.. a few more friends... and A LOT OF WEIGHT!!! argH! plz la.. one day 5 meals no exercise... Damn it! im not too happy about gaining the last part...
had loads of bread with jam and penut butter... and fried eggs.. and french toast...
"how to synergize your team" by Mr. Leonard Yeo. basically this presentation is about finding wad problems ur team is facing.. and then trying to do sth about it. this leads to motivation of the team.. mr yeo is a loud speaker.. i think he is very aa ( attract attension ).. haha.. keep saying, " everyone look at me ", "all eyes on me"....... wah lao wanna write down stuff also cannot... cuz scared he scold or sth.. seems kinda fierce to me la.. but my opinion of him changed after tt ( talk about this later on ). his workshop is the best among all others.. though did feel slpy.. but din slp at all la.. since had to plaster my eyes on him all the time.. also, he's not bad looking la.. as yingying says, " he's hot." though think "hot"' is abit exaggerating.. hahaz.. ok.. tt's not the point.. point is... he gave as an outdoor activity to do.. 1stly we had to do this stupid spastic thing-string ourselves together via raffia string. den we had to travel round the sch to complete the following tasks:
yup, so we had to travel around together.. with much difficulty... tugging one another along..haha.. i think we really looked spastic la! cuz i felt spastic.. and looking at the other grps, i tot they looked spastic running around lidat!!! hahahz
me and xiao an skipped lunch for some slp. we decided to stay in class and slp since there was aircon.. michael and junjie stayed back too.. but to talk to mr. yeo.. for obvious reasons.. though they din tell me.. but it must be about mr. goh.. how he demotivates the WHOLE team..
anw we were about to enter dreamland.. when the voice of mr. ho's woke me up! he was like "girls girls... i will be locking the rm.. blahblahblah.." but anw we could still stay inside la..i wonder how long it was.. cuz when we were awoken by mr. ho, michael and jj had juz finished their conversation with mr.yeo... anw we continued to slp la.. den everyone left le.. mr. yeo was the last... b4 he left.. he was like talking to us.. sth about we very tired ah.. den say okok have a gd slp or sth... but the way he said he surprised me and an... it was like in a overly gentle voice?? compared to how he talked during the presentation? and the way he looked?!!? hahaz.. my hair stands juz thinking bout it... it was like the kinda tone more suitable for like showing concern for gf lidat... ahahz.. funny..
anw me and an slpt on the tables.. wah.. slpt until damn suay sia..!! =) den 10 mins into the next activity, we went out of class and roammed about..
i wasnt sure which workshop i was posted too... so i assumed it was another motivation and team building talk.. cuz i remembered i ticked tt.. so me and xiao an waited outside the wrong classroom... den junjie saw me.. den say he same workshop as me.. so he waited with us.. while in the class, i think junjie was on the phone with michael, cuz he came in later on..
when the name list was passed around.. our names weren't inside.. opps! wrong class! den we were thinking whether we shd tell the trainer.. so we did.. den we went into the effective communication class with a "mi le fo" trainer-Mr. nick ng... he's fat.. gigantic and bald.. hahaz..anw the workshop is called "Communicating with Power and Persuasion". haiz i hate these kinda workshops cuz they sure call u up to talk infront of the whole class.. anw i was damn suay la.. i kena called up for this stupid thing.. whereby he wrote "i love u" on a piece of ppr.. let me see.. and den told me to say it in a angry tone... and problem is i hardly scream and scold infront of ppl in real life??? faking it would be even more fake!!! i juz totally malu-ed myself!! hate u! arGH....(-_- ")
after that had tea break... stupid other grps.. they ate up all the delicious eclares?!! and left stupid hot curry puffs for us... haiz..
den went back to class again.. den we were suppose to do a short explaination on the diff strategies to influence in grps.. den within the grps we need to appoint a grp leader and speaker.. we chose the leader quickly...and for speaker we open numbered.. and k la.. now i noe my unlucky no. is 32 ! cuz i kena!!!!
we split up into diff grps to prepare diff dishes.. Apache was doing fruits... the guys cut watermelon while the girls cut bananas and stuffed marshmellows into them and add chocolate syrup and den wrap it up in aluminium foil... i guess our job was the easiest cuz we finished 1st and i was slacking for the rest of the time... the jobs the other grps had to do included frying potato with cheese, preparing apple salad, wrapping buttered chicken, and lighting charcoal in the pit at the horticulture garden.
Dr. william tan is wheelchair bound. he contracted polio when he was young.. cuzing him to be paralyzed waist down.. however despite this.. he stayed strong and hung on... aimmed to excel in studies and marathons and he did... all i can say...he's an inspiration to everyone la.. as in.. i see him lidat.. and compare him with the things he does... it's like impossible is really nothing liaoz... if he can do so much great things.. wad more us...
ate with xiao an, woonie, and wei ting... the food was erm... probably juz my psychology la.. not very clean.. acutally it's a fact la.. cuz the way we prepare the food.. all juz use bare hands... den all soggy liao.. den the chicken and babana which went into the pit to cook definitely had some soil gotten on...
went to bathe after that....
we actually planned to slp in the canteen again.. but when we went up to the class rms, my rm had the air con turned on!!! wah... it was so shuang to have the air con loh.. so we decided to lie on the tables in the class 1st... ying ying and shu yu were walking past our class.. den we waved at each other and i asked them to come in to enjoy the aircon... so they sat infront of us.. and we talked for a while.. ying ying and shu yu later went down to walk walk while me and an took a 5 min nap... we den moved to an's class to make our own "bed" there since we were previously traspassing someone else's territory.. many ppl were mass bridging around the sch compound.. and apparently the rest of an's grp were doing tt cuz there wasnt a single soul in her class!!! so we had the entire rm to ourselves.. ahahz.. damn shuang.. we used 9 tables + the teacher's table for our bed... and we talked till we slpt..
after writing so much.. it's now 2.31 am le!!! im so tired!!
30 May'05 DAY 1:
there were 5 grps namely: 1(pink)-Cocopah, 2(beige)-Lakota, 3(orange)-Cherokee, 4(purple)-Apache, 5(blue)-Yakima
not successful at all.. waste time only
the trainer was Mr Marvin Lim. he made us gather as grps and taught us 3 different kinds oh hand-shakes.
1. lumberjack ( each person stacks their hands over the other's thumb and jerk is back and forth like sawing a tree?!?!?)
2. fishing ( stretch ur hands out till the arms.. and den start tapping.. so it looks like a fish outa water flapping about?? )
3. dutch lady - marvin says u have to do it with RESPECT ( one person interlocks his fingers between both hands with thumbs sticking out pointing downwards. the other person will hold the thumbs and..MIlk! wahahz.. milking the cow handshake?? )
then we took MBTI (personality) test... and im INFP.. ( I-introversion vs extroversion, N-intuition vs sensing ,F-feeling vs thinking ,P-perciving vs judging ) hmm do u all think it's accurate??? xiao an, pamela and yue woon were disagreeing.. saying im very noisy and outgoing.. cannot be quiet and reserved?? hey y not la! dun u noe im very demure! =P haha..we agreed that i got spilt personality.. and Xiao an called me physco!
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well i guess im introvert when im with ppl i dun noe well.. very obviously from the way i dun click with Apache.. dunno any single one there la! damn sad.. i dread every grp activity tt comes...cuz i'd have no one to talk to!!! and it's like so hard to say sth cuz got nth to talk about!? wad crap...oh yea.. also cannot tok crap to them!
but den again.. i guess making the 1st move alone is hard.. so awkward.. managed to make some friends though.. but not really my grpmates.. they were friends of my friends... (e.g Yingying, wei ting ) haha.. and xiao an gets to noe them also (thru woon) and also annabelle and pam (thru me!) tt's y xiao an's an IN like me! hahaz.. and tt's y we stuck together throughout the entire camp...
only during some grp activities den got chance to talk..cuz its a muz to communicate...so noe more ppl la.. though i would'nt consider them "friends" yet...
dunno wad kind of workshop this was.. waste of $, waste of time.. probably only michael & yingqi and the other ppl who were in the same grp as them benefitted.. they went to joo chiat and interviewed the owner of "jing zhen tou" the bun with curry chicken inside.. the uncle so damn nice la!!! treated them 2 BIG bunS!!!! jealous! hahaz
of all the places.. airport.. downtown east.. joo chiat...changi village...my grp went to tampines mall!!!! wth... i aLwAys GO THERE?!?!?
kk nvm.. anw was grped with michelle (wushu), charlyn (horticulture), victoria (fencing), and huiqing (art). we interviewed the 2 friendly ladies working in 'flower power', a clothes shop...den we went to eat at Gelare since we had plenty of time left... oh.. met Fat ced at long john silver there...
after that went back to sch.. had tea break.. den went to the allocated classrms to share wad we've done.. was in same class as belle, xiaoan and micheal...everyone talked about where they went and blahblahblah... but i din.. hahaz.. i totally did it on purpose.. cuz i din noe wad to say and i'd probably end up fumbling all the words...( i hate presenting stuff to big grps! ) belle also din give.. i dunno y.. maybe she forgot since she was juz sitting there doodling all the way... ahahz..
me and xiaoan roammed around sch in hope to find an empty and usable toilet.. apparently in the whole of VJ, there's only 5 cubicles used for bathing.. which was in the toilet at the back of the hall... so we didn't get to bathe cuz too many ppl and by the time it was 8.. we had to assemble at LT1.
this session so totally RocKS! initially i tot the movie would be some stupid documentary or interview or wad nots... but it turned out to be a REAL shoW!!! woOTS! yay!!
watched "Remember the Titans". it's damn nice.. it's about racism and football.. how the team learn to put aside their differences and to play together as one team..
[the Synopsis]-->
the film, based on a true story, takes place at T.C. Williams High School in Virginia. the football team (all whites )is coached by Bill Yoast ( a white). when desegregation occurs, black players are allowed on the team, together with a new head coach, Herman Boone (a black). this becomes a political problem as Boone's appointment to be head coach causes some intial fury in the community as well as the current football team. however, Yoast decides to stay on as the assitant coach, and things among the community settle down somewhat. however, the black and white players view themselves as opponents, even though they are now on the same team.
Boone sends the team to training camp where he uses a variety of techniques to help the players bond. finally, the players bond, and they return with a new found respect for one another. however, they realise that the community is not quite as accepting. their newly acquired open-mindedness is now challenged by family and friends..a conspiracy has even been formed to drop Boone as head coach; if he losses juz one game, the sch plans to give the job back to Yoast.
thus during one match, the umpire was being super kayu.. faulting the titans for nth.. the objective- for the titans to lose so that yoast can get his head coach position back. yoast realised this.. but for the greater good of humanity.. the team.. and due to his integrity, he told the umpire he wanted a good clean game.. so the titans won in the end and Boone remained as head coach.. many tot yoast was stupid to do so.. but i think this is wad leaders shd do.. be upright and self-sacrificial...i really admire him...
the team fought hard.. match after match.. claiming victory in everyone.. they finally got into the finals...but juz before the finals... Gerry Bertier (a white )(captain ) met with a car accident and was paralyze waist down....
he refused to see anyone except Julius Campbell (a black) whom he had hated most at 1st but eventually forged such a deep friendship with... i cant really remember wad their conversation was about.. but it was one of the most touching parts of the film..
from den, Gerry's mother and gf ( they initially could not accept gerry being with blacks) learned to embrace julius and other blacks..
at the finals.. the match was very tough.. and exciting.. Gerry watched it from the tv in his ward.. after a gruelling fite from both teams.. the titans emerged the Champions!!!! this could only have been possible bcuz they trusted one another and really supported each other on the battle field.. the moment was very glorious and it was a happy and touching ending in deed...
super nice show.. i give props to it!!! it's one show which is not only nice.. but also meaningful and we can learn from it..i'm planning the try to get the movie.. so that i can let the badminton team watch.. =)
we and xiao an went to bathe.. was like 1130 already.. den we made a bed out of the canteen chairs and waited for annabelle to come back.. ( she went to attend a wedding dinner.. so missed the movie ) annabelle reached sch like at 12++.. den we went to 7-11 but it was closed liao.. so we went back to canteen.. we were the only campers planning to slp in the canteen.. den yong sheng was roaming about the canteen too.. so we asked him about some ghost stories.. den said a few.. and we went to slp.. poor xiao an i think she had some shock cuz of the stories.. ahahz..
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:: debbie ::
:: fujing ::
:: jfoo ::
:: tracy ::
:: timothy ::
:: wai yip ::
:: jun long ::
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:: kimberley ::
:: nicholas ::
:: chong lee ::
:: si ying ::
:: tricia ::
:: jean ::
:: pamela ::
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:: xiao an ::
:: xiao kai ::
:: nicole ::
:: shu ting ::
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